TY  - GEN
AU  - Shepherd, Kancha Ilaiah 
TI  - God as political philosopher: : Buddha's challenge to brahminism
SN  - 9789353282592
U1  - 294.363 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Sage Publications
KW  - Politics and government	
KW  - Interfaith relations
KW  - Social change
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - India
KW  - Religion
KW  - Buddhist sociology
KW  - Brahmanism
KW  - Gautama Buddha	
KW  - Buddhism and state
N1  - Include Bibliography and Index

N2  - In this provocative and scholarly book, Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd propounds a view of Gautama Buddha as India’s first social revolutionary. Buddha did his best to give the principles of tribal democracy and egalitarianism a sanctuary in his own sangha. In so doing, he foreshadowed modern India’s experiment with parliamentary democracy. Critical of the caste system, Buddha inducted low caste members into the sangha and made them his trusted advisers. He gave women an honoured place in the sangha. Dissent was indeed permitted, and even Buddha was not above the law. Pre-dating Socrates and Plato by some years, Buddha also foreshadowed key elements of their philosophy
ER  -